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Rodeo Round up: the one where we push back

By On May 18, 2012 · 2 Comments

Molly is eating seafood and drinking bougie coffee in Seattle, so you’re stuck with me. I’ll try to be funny. Lately it seems conservatives have taken their extreme agenda too far and people are pushing back. That trend continued this week.

An Oklahoma judge permanently blocked a law, which

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Rodeo Roundup: Zombies at the Capitol

By On April 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

What a week! I got a tooth filled and then accidentally overdosed on OTC cough syrup. I’m okay now, thanks for asking. Yes, I’m a grown up. No, I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.

So if the personhood bill were, umm, a person..it would’ve died last week and then came back to life this [...]

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Rodeo Roundup: Cast out thy demon!!

By On April 21, 2012 · 1 Comment

It’s been a super busy week here in Oklahoma! I can barely catch my breath – like when I drunk dance! Whew! We had some seriously tragic weather. Deadly storms are a part of life here, and while it may not scare us as much as it should, we do take it seriously. [...]

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Rodeo Roundup: The one where everyone wants to sit with us

By On March 30, 2012 · 2 Comments

You know that story The Ugly Duckling where nobody pays attention to that fug duck? Cause it’s, like, gross. But then it grows up and gets all pretty cause it was really a swan? Then everyone loves that formerly nasty duck? Because animals have some sense of societal beauty norms?  Or that movie,

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Opposite the Editorial Page

By On March 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I want everyone that reads this text to ponder with me the idea of correctness. Correctness meaning conforming to standards of a specific ideology set of beliefs or values. Values are correct or incorrect relative to the particular worldview one ascribes to. The Associated Press reported yesterday, March 28, 2012, on the blog

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Guest Post: How Are We Being Portrayed?

By On March 7, 2012 · 4 Comments

On February 28th, 2012, several hundred people gathered on the steps of Oklahoma’s state Capitol to rally against legislative attempts to pass a “personhood” measure that would grant separate constitutional rights for fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses. The rally followed the Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice 2012 Conference that took place in [...]

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Local group blesses ultrasound machine, donates to crisis pregnancy center

By On March 5, 2012 · 1 Comment

Recently, in what might be the most sanctimonious ceremony in the history of the world, a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus Council donated a guilt machine ultrasound machine to Eden Clinic in Midwest City but not before the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiose of Oklahoma City blessed it. Yeaaaahh. [...]

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Rodeo Roundup: Bacon Shots

By On March 2, 2012 · 1 Comment

I’m here! I promise! I didn’t leave you, dear readers. (do I have any?)  I have a headache, or maybe a uterus ache.  I ache because this year has just started and I already want to carve out a chunk of wall and burrow like a bunny. I read a good amount of news and [...]

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Strength in Numbers: The Importance of Community

By On March 1, 2012 · 3 Comments

On Tuesday February 28, 2012 I attended my first political rally. I carpooled down to Oklahoma City from Tulsa with four Tulsa friends and we arrived at the State Capitol a little after 12:30pm. As we maneuvered through the maze of parking lots toward the North side of the Capitol building, I knew we made [...]

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Oklahoma Senators Aren’t Fooling Around

By On February 23, 2012 · 1 Comment

So in case you haven’t heard the anguished cries and general rage coming from the writers and activists at OK4RJ in the last week, SB 1433 recently passed in the Oklahoma Senate. The bill defines fertilized eggs as people, and essentially proves that 34 Oklahoma lawmakers think the lives of pregnant people are [...]

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